Motivational Quotes

Love

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

14.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

28.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.